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				AD Scientific Index - World Scientist Rankings - 2023				H INDEX			i10 INDEX			CITATION
University / Institution	Country	Region	World	Name	Country	University / Institution	Subject	Total	Last 6 year	Last 6 year/total	Total	Last 6 year	Last 6 year/total	Total	Last 6 year	Last 6 year/total
1	1	1	21	Richard M Ryan	Australia	Australian Catholic University	Social Sciences / Psychology Self-Determination Theory \| psychology \| intrinsic motivation \| education \| organizational behavior \|	215	171	0.795	435	402	0.924	517125	232284	0.449
1	4	76	177	Wilmar Schaufeli	Netherlands	Utrecht University	Social Sciences / Psychology Occupational Health Psychology \|	197	145	0.736	556	469	0.844	249115	122436	0.491
1	6	170	370	Dorret I Boomsma ⁱ	Netherlands	VU University of Amsterdam	Social Sciences / Psychology	198	137	0.692	1226	932	0.760	168768	83211	0.493
1	6	8	380	Roy F Baumeister	Australia	University of Queensland	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| personality \|	198	136	0.687	597	467	0.782	258478	96078	0.372
7	128	144	420	James J Gross	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Psychology Emotion \| Emotion Regulation \|	171	134	0.784	487	472	0.969	193667	95661	0.494
1	25	200	432	Ian Deary	United Kingdom	University of Edinburgh	Social Sciences / Psychology Intelligence \| Cognitive Aging \| Personality \| Psychometrics \| Psychology \|	198	134	0.677	1383	1047	0.757	156337	77786	0.498
2	7	201	433	Pim Cuijpers	Netherlands	VU University of Amsterdam	Social Sciences / Psychology depression \| prevention \| psychotherapy \| meta-analysis \| RCTs \|	179	134	0.749	789	708	0.897	116570	69866	0.599
3	142	159	472	Ed Diener	United States	University of Illinois Urbana Champaign	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Social psychology \| Personality psychology \| Positive Psychology \|	196	131	0.668	442	371	0.839	314221	121677	0.387
3	174	195	565	Terrie E Moffitt	United States	Duke University	Social Sciences / Psychology developmental psychopathology \| intelligence \| crime \| aging \|	211	126	0.597	520	448	0.862	202513	67609	0.334
2	20	315	703	Hans Ulrich Wittchen ⁱ	Germany	Technische Universität Dresden	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychiatrie \| Psychologie \|	199	116	0.583	904	637	0.705	196420	65105	0.331
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3	16	320	714	Stanislas Dehaene	France	CEA (Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives)	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Cognitive Neuroscience \| Education \|	179	116	0.648	473	406	0.858	145127	49221	0.339
5	290	315	820	Michael Tomasello	United States	Duke University	Social Sciences / Psychology developmental psychology \| evolutionary anthropology \| cognitive science \| evolutionary psychology \|	204	110	0.539	741	619	0.835	192032	64558	0.336
8	60	363	858	Chris Frith	United Kingdom	University College London	Social Sciences / Psychology mind \| brain \| social interaction \|	234	109	0.466	613	411	0.670	225882	47018	0.208
3	7	91	886	Qian Wang	Hong Kong	Chinese University of Hong Kong	Social Sciences / Psychology Developmental Psychology \|	143	107	0.748	1772	1542	0.870	124716	75489	0.605
5	336	362	910	Martin Seligman ⁱ	United States	Nemours Children's Health System	Social Sciences / Psychology Positive Psychology \| Learned Helplessness \| Prospection \| Depression \| Optimism \|	178	106	0.596	543	349	0.643	276738	85325	0.308
2	11	405	988	Gerhard Andersson	Sweden	Karolinska Institute	Social Sciences / Psychology Clinical psychology \| internet \| tinnitus \| mood and anxiety disorders \|	150	104	0.693	679	571	0.841	79516	41788	0.526
3	397	426	1046	Eduardo Salas	United States	Rice University	Social Sciences / Psychology organizational psychology \| human factors \| teamwork \|	177	102	0.576	636	453	0.712	122275	40526	0.331
45	433	464	1124	Katie A Mclaughlin ⁱ	United States	Harvard University	Social Sciences / Psychology childhood adversity \| stress \| trauma \| affective neuroscience \| developmental psychopathology \|	112	100	0.893	276	267	0.967	49791	35569	0.714
4	86	463	1176	Robin M Murray ⁱ	United Kingdom	King's College London	Social Sciences / Psychology psychosis \| schizophrenia \| drug abuse \|	207	98	0.473	1088	626	0.575	160896	46426	0.289
1	471	511	1220	Phillip R Shaver	United States	University of California Davis	Social Sciences / Psychology personality and social psychology \| attachment theory \|	150	97	0.647	412	326	0.791	151895	46365	0.305
4	492	535	1272	Nancy Eisenberg Berg	United States	Arizona State University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| psychiatry \| pediatrics \| neuroscience \| family studies \|	165	96	0.582	499	409	0.820	123945	39913	0.322
10	94	496	1303	Susan Michie	United Kingdom	University College London	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \|	118	95	0.805	505	414	0.820	113309	73097	0.645
1	45	563	1334	Robert J Vallerand	Canada	Université du Québec Montréal	Social Sciences / Psychology Passion \| Motivation \| Self \| Positive Psychology \| Social Psychology \|	132	95	0.720	295	251	0.851	94108	37051	0.394
8	526	571	1362	Susan Fiske	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| social neuroscience \|	143	94	0.657	385	293	0.761	148761	48966	0.329
9	530	577	1384	John Dovidio	United States	Yale University	Social Sciences / Psychology prejudice \| intergroup relations \| prosocial behavior \|	140	94	0.671	436	364	0.835	93596	35763	0.382
26	562	610	1450	Russ Poldrack	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Psychology cognitive neuroscience \| neuroimaging \| neuroinformatics \|	131	93	0.710	319	274	0.859	75947	36072	0.475
59	555	603	1435	Matthew Nock	United States	Harvard University	Social Sciences / Psychology suicide \| self-injury \| clinical psychology \| psychiatry \|	117	93	0.795	335	319	0.952	70257	41688	0.593
6	52	57	1515	S Alexander Haslam\|Alex Haslam	Australia	University of Queensland	Social Sciences / Psychology Social identity \| Identity \| Social psychology \| Group processes \| Leadership \|	129	92	0.713	407	346	0.850	73171	37538	0.513
1	603	654	1559	Steven C Hayes	United States	University of Nevada Reno	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| evolutionary psychology \| cognitive science \| behavior analysis \| clinical psychology \|	150	91	0.607	450	311	0.691	121203	46349	0.382
21	624	676	1622	John Gabrieli	United States	Massachusetts Institute of Technology	Social Sciences / Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience \|	166	91	0.548	391	306	0.783	97289	27614	0.284
6	633	686	1641	Richard E Petty	United States	Ohio State University	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| attitudes \| persuasion \| social cognition \| emotion \|	155	90	0.581	417	332	0.796	167683	48799	0.291
16	129	643	1668	Charles Spence	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \|	142	90	0.634	815	711	0.872	77448	36529	0.472
1	5	195	1724	Shalom H Schwartz	Israel	Hebrew University of Jerusalem	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| cross cultural psychology \| political psychology \|	132	89	0.674	248	211	0.851	144089	53306	0.370
5	678	731	1737	Norbert Schwarz	United States	University of Southern California	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| cognitive psychology \| consumer behavior \| decision making \| survey methodology \|	147	89	0.605	392	288	0.735	123035	39460	0.321
3	674	727	1732	Thomas Joiner	United States	Florida State University	Social Sciences / Psychology Suicide prevention \|	145	89	0.614	674	522	0.774	95365	43323	0.454
8	680	733	1746	Stefan G Hofmann	United States	Boston University	Social Sciences / Psychology Clinical Psychology \| Cognitive Behavioral Therapy \| Anxiety Disorders \| Social Anxiety \|	130	89	0.685	436	347	0.796	70114	36210	0.516
9	711	764	1802	Jonathan D Cohen	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience \| Cognitive Psychology \| Computational Neuroscience \| Cognitive Control \| Prefrontal Cortex \|	142	88	0.620	423	271	0.641	166009	47418	0.286
9	711	764	1802	Jonathan D Cohen	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Psychology Cognitive Neuroscience \| Cognitive Psychology \| Computational Neuroscience \| Cognitive Control \| Prefrontal Cortex \|	142	88	0.620	423	271	0.641	166009	47418	0.286
8	724	781	1858	Jean Decety	United States	University of Chicago	Social Sciences / Psychology Affective neuroscience \| Developmental neuroscience \| Social neuroscience \| Cognitive neuroscience \|	137	88	0.642	315	265	0.841	82074	27877	0.340
13	744	804	1909	Shelley E Taylor	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Social Sciences / Psychology Social Psychology \| Social Cognition \| Health Psychology \|	145	87	0.600	371	227	0.612	152138	35092	0.231
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2	151	729	1934	Paul Gilbert	United Kingdom	University of Derby	Social Sciences / Psychology compassion \| clinical psychology \| evolution \| self-compassion \|	121	87	0.719	327	272	0.832	61089	28366	0.464
1	155	738	1970	Alan Baddeley	United Kingdom	University of York	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Cognitive Psychology \| Memory \| Working memory \|	173	86	0.497	535	318	0.594	213420	48124	0.225
9	768	830	1966	Paul Costa	United States	Duke University	Social Sciences / Psychology Personality five- factor model. NEO-PI-R \|	164	86	0.524	453	320	0.706	195509	52237	0.267
7	767	828	1964	David Watson	United States	University of Notre Dame	Social Sciences / Psychology Affect \| Personality \| Psychopathology \|	130	86	0.662	304	257	0.845	166441	56549	0.340
3	32	746	1993	Klaus R Scherer	Switzerland	Université de Geneve	Social Sciences / Psychology emotion \| voice \| appraisal \| speech \| music \|	149	86	0.577	443	327	0.738	102414	33758	0.330
1	782	844	1999	Jean Twenge	United States	San Diego State University	Social Sciences / Psychology generations \| personality \| social psychology \| gender roles \|	101	86	0.851	171	159	0.930	63948	31538	0.493
1	77	792	2115	Ulman Lindenberger	Germany	Max Planck Institute for Human Development; Max-Planck-Institut für Bildungsforschung	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Developmental Psychology \| Cognitive Science \| Behavioural Science \|	121	85	0.702	419	353	0.842	64601	28439	0.440
9	854	918	2166	Barbara L Fredrickson	United States	University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	Social Sciences / Psychology affective science \| positive psychology \| social psychology \| psychology \|	103	84	0.816	202	182	0.901	126942	53802	0.424
6	865	931	2186	James W Pennebaker	United States	University of Texas Austin	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| language \| health \|	130	84	0.646	361	241	0.668	115849	39202	0.338
1	857	922	2172	Olaf Sporns	United States	Indiana University Bloomington	Social Sciences / Psychology Network Science \| Computational Neuroscience \| Theoretical Neuroscience \| Connectome \| Connectomics \|	109	84	0.771	263	209	0.795	94161	46903	0.498
4	853	917	2165	Brian Nosek	United States	University of Virginia	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| social psychology \| methodology \| open science \| metascience \|	103	84	0.816	204	178	0.873	92149	54394	0.590
43	880	948	2222	I Gotlib	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychopathology \| developmental neuroscience \|	151	84	0.556	450	386	0.858	83034	29525	0.356
9	879	947	2218	John Jost	United States	New York University	Social Sciences / Psychology Social Psychology \| Political Psychology \|	101	84	0.832	228	195	0.855	61727	30462	0.493
1	886	955	2240	W Keith Campbell	United States	University of Georgia	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| narcissism \| personality \| self \| psychedelics \|	103	84	0.816	205	192	0.937	52874	26103	0.494
1	188	877	2352	Mark H Johnson ⁱ	United Kingdom	Birkbeck University of London	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology neuroscience \|	135	83	0.615	569	340	0.598	91923	31435	0.342
			January 1, 2022 Total 716.979 scientist, 212 country, 14.130 university... January 6, 2023 Total 1.264.669 scientist, 216 country, 19.528 university
5	925	998	2351	Mark Greenberg	United States	Pennsylvania State University	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Education \|	138	83	0.601	381	301	0.790	90899	31519	0.347
1	200	927	2486	Sonia Livingstone	United Kingdom	London School of Economics and Political Science	Social Sciences / Psychology media and communications \| children and internet \| audiences \| media literacy \| children's rights in the digital environment \|	118	82	0.695	385	274	0.712	68463	27886	0.407
17	210	952	2566	Allan Young ⁱ	United Kingdom	King's College London	Social Sciences / Psychology psychopharmacology \| biological psychiatry \|	125	81	0.648	594	395	0.665	86553	39274	0.454
11	47	990	2669	Michael Siegrist	Switzerland	Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule ETH Zürich	Social Sciences / Psychology Risk perception \| Risk Communication \| Consumer behaviour \| Environmental Psychology \|	100	81	0.810	323	286	0.885	37195	22369	0.601
52	1077	1166	2727	Hazel Markus	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \| cultural psychology \| self \| choice \| motivaton \|	123	80	0.650	243	182	0.749	125506	33709	0.269
2	223	1003	2705	Zoltán Dörnyei	United Kingdom	University of Nottingham	Social Sciences / Psychology applied linguistics \| second language acquisition \| motivation \|	94	80	0.851	143	119	0.832	110973	49273	0.444
1	9	332	2764	Mario Mikulincer	Israel	Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya	Social Sciences / Psychology Attachment \| Emotion Regulation \| Personality and Social Psychology \| Close relationships \|	137	80	0.584	388	298	0.768	79624	26919	0.338
4	1097	1189	2779	Nathana Fox	United States	University of Maryland	Social Sciences / Psychology developmental psychology \|	143	80	0.559	523	428	0.818	70448	25569	0.363
4	1108	1200	2808	Gerald R Ferris	United States	Florida State University	Social Sciences / Psychology Social Influence \| Power and Politics \| Reputation \| and Political Skill \|	125	80	0.640	330	259	0.785	60545	21456	0.354
9	1119	1212	2849	Michael I Posner	United States	University of Oregon	Social Sciences / Psychology attention \|	158	79	0.500	438	249	0.568	176914	37843	0.214
12	1117	1209	2836	Alice Eagly	United States	Northwestern University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| social psychology \| gender \| attitudes \| leadership \|	118	79	0.669	237	180	0.759	144127	50125	0.348
29	1116	1208	2835	Oliver P John	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \|	104	79	0.760	184	166	0.902	120713	50252	0.416
112	1123	1216	2856	Larry J Seidman ⁱ	United States	Harvard University	Social Sciences / Psychology Schizophrenia \| ADHD \| Neuropsychology \|	146	79	0.541	526	426	0.810	90070	36500	0.405
56	1154	1249	2923	Eric Stice	United States	Stanford University	Social Sciences / Psychology eating disorders \| obesity \| depression \| clinical psychology \| psychiatry \|	131	79	0.603	306	271	0.886	70807	23565	0.333
20	240	1082	2895	Edmund Sonuga Barke ⁱ	United Kingdom	King's College London	Social Sciences / Psychology Developmental Psychology \| Developmental Neuroscience \| ADHD \|	124	79	0.637	411	328	0.798	67226	27522	0.409
9	1139	1232	2885	Julian Thayer	United States	Ohio State University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychololgy \|	116	79	0.681	376	322	0.856	61291	30064	0.491
23	1147	1241	2906	Michelle Craske	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Social Sciences / Psychology clinical psychology \|	132	79	0.598	473	375	0.793	61243	26261	0.429
1	1157	1252	2933	Todd Kashdan	United States	George Mason University	Social Sciences / Psychology well-being \| personality psychology \| anxiety \| positive psychology \| emotion regulation \|	106	79	0.745	220	200	0.909	41513	22355	0.539
2	1170	1267	2964	Charles S Carver	United States	University of Miami	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \|	148	78	0.527	388	280	0.722	171254	50666	0.296
1	1175	1274	2976	Michael Hogg	United States	Claremont Graduate University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| social psychology \| leadership \| social identity \| group processes \|	137	78	0.569	322	260	0.807	111138	36843	0.332
4	1214	1316	3050	Donald R Lynam	United States	Purdue University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychopathy \| personality \| personality assessment \| personality disorders \| impulsivity \|	106	78	0.736	250	232	0.928	53774	23632	0.439
10	1232	1335	3095	Sheldon Cohen	United States	Carnegie Mellon University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| social psychology \| psychoneuroimmunology \| health psychology \| social support \|	132	77	0.583	302	215	0.712	173536	58330	0.336
11	1250	1357	3145	Denise M Rousseau	United States	Carnegie Mellon University	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychological Contracts \| Idiosyncratic Deals \| Evidence Based Management \| Organizational Behavior \| Human Resource Management \|	107	77	0.720	208	155	0.745	101095	30237	0.299
11	1265	1372	3178	Dm Buss	United States	University of Texas Austin	Social Sciences / Psychology evolutionary psychology \| personality \| social psychology \| sexuality \| sex differences \|	129	77	0.597	303	240	0.792	91596	25834	0.282
13	1324	1439	3321	Nancy Adler	United States	University of California San Francisco	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| public health \| medicine \| socioeconomic status \|	116	76	0.655	339	249	0.735	64337	26013	0.404
19	1322	1437	3317	Thomas L Griffiths	United States	Princeton University	Social Sciences / Psychology Computational Models of Cognition \| Cognitive Science \| Machine Learning \| Cognitive Psychology \| Bayesian Statistics \|	103	76	0.738	320	257	0.803	56650	26622	0.470
30	1344	1462	3370	Irwin MR	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychoneuroimmunology \| Depression \| Sleep disturbance \| Immunity \| Aging \|	121	76	0.628	402	303	0.754	55054	22705	0.412
17	35	410	3261	Roger C Ho	Singapore	National University of Singapore	Social Sciences / Psychology Global Mental Health \| functional near infrared spectroscopy \| COVID-19 \| Depression \| Meta-analysis \|	84	76	0.905	375	361	0.963	48674	45163	0.928
2	141	150	3385	Nikos Ntoumanis	Australia	Curtin University	Social Sciences / Psychology motivation \| behavioural science \| exercise psychology \| health psychology \| psychology \|	96	76	0.792	240	223	0.929	42545	21614	0.508
39	1408	1529	3518	Keith Rayner	United States	University of California San Diego	Social Sciences / Psychology Cognitive Psychology \| Language processing \| Reading \|	155	75	0.484	397	306	0.771	91879	24712	0.269
10	1402	1523	3509	A Kruglanski	United States	University of Maryland	Social Sciences / Psychology motivation \| cognition \| terrorism \| political violence \| epistemology \|	116	75	0.647	373	296	0.794	67076	25235	0.376
7	82	1256	3439	Denny Borsboom	Netherlands	University of Amsterdam	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Psychometrics \| Clinical Psychology \| Philosophy of Science \| Methodology \|	83	75	0.904	179	158	0.883	49538	36894	0.745
2	12	460	3590	Ruth Feldman	Israel	Interdisciplinary Center Herzliya	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| neuroscience \|	104	75	0.721	249	222	0.892	40146	18797	0.468
8	32	1292	3561	Hans De Witte	Belgium	Catholic University of Leuven	Social Sciences / Psychology Job Insecurity \| temporary work \| work stress \| work engagement \| bullying at work \|	98	75	0.765	339	243	0.717	39895	21245	0.533
5	9	164	3598	Suzanne Barker Collo ⁱ	New Zealand	University of Auckland	Social Sciences / Psychology Neuropsychology \| neurorehabilitation \| stroke \| traumatic brain injury \|	85	74	0.871	170	158	0.929	148196	107335	0.724
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3	155	165	3610	Michael P Leiter	Australia	Deakin University	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \| work psychology \| burnout \| stress \| civility \|	102	74	0.725	218	189	0.867	120945	54830	0.453
15	1450	1573	3628	Carol D Ryff	United States	University of Wisconsin Madison	Social Sciences / Psychology well-being \| aging \| health \|	115	74	0.643	263	228	0.867	101653	44906	0.442
2	10	171	3745	David Fergusson	New Zealand	University of Otago	Social Sciences / Psychology psychology \|	153	74	0.484	445	296	0.665	84945	22623	0.266
6	1513	1640	3755	Jeff Greenberg	United States	University of Arizona	Social Sciences / Psychology social psychology \|	127	74	0.583	286	223	0.780	73744	22193	0.301
35	1499	1625	3722	Robert Thomas Knight	United States	University of California Berkeley	Social Sciences / Psychology Prefrontal Cortex \| Electrocorticography \| Electroencephalogram \| Neural Decoding \|	128	74	0.578	467	379	0.812	71903	24382	0.339
45	309	1341	3740	Dorothy VM Bishop	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Psychology Psychology \| Neuroscience \| Language \| Developmental disorders \|	139	74	0.532	376	282	0.750	71522	23200	0.324
47	313	1350	3783	Margaret J Snowling	United Kingdom	University of Oxford	Social Sciences / Psychology dyslexia reading language \|	110	74	0.673	265	208	0.785	57207	20210	0.353
34	1545	1672	3804	Matthew Lieberman	United States	University of California Los Angeles	Social Sciences / Psychology Social Cognitive Neuroscience \| Social Neuroscience \| Affective Neuroscience \| Social Cognition \| Social Psychology \|	102	74	0.725	187	173	0.925	46859	18359	0.392
1	148	1343	3748	Sabine Sonnentag	Germany	Universität Mannheim	Social Sciences / Psychology occupational stress \| well-being \| recovery \| health behavior \| proactivity \|	93	74	0.796	173	152	0.879	42198	22558	0.535
19	160	170	3744	Jolanda Jetten	Australia	University of Queensland	Social Sciences / Psychology Group processes \| social identity \| intergroup relations \|	92	74	0.804	233	212	0.910	37029	22934	0.619